1 Kings 6:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.”
A short, plain-language explanation of 1 Kings 6:8 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The opening of the middle side <FI>is<Fi> at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 6:8 — 2 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 41:6The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
- Ezekiel 42:6For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).